Khron's Cave

So this Cymatic LP-16 16-channel backing track player came in the other week, from a loyal and "repeat" customer, with the descri...

As a follow-up to the recently posted MOTU Ultralite teardown , i had to grab this as soon as it popped up in my search results, because it ...

In an interesting turn of events, i actually did NOT get this one as faulty. It was more to relieve one of my 828mk2 's from rehearsal-p...

 Ok, this is gonna be a bit of a quickie. Basically, i got this one ridiculously cheap as well, with the intention of repairing it and gifti...

  And now, getting back to the issue affecting this unit... As pointed out in the ad, the LT3439 apparently used to have a piddly little h...

Despite having hoped to nab an Audient interface for some time now, only quite recently did i manage to get my hands on one. Since i'm a...

Boy, that's a lot of M's up there... But yeah, here's another eBay score, bought as faulty. Basically, because it was too cheap ...

Since relatively recently acquiring the MOTU 8M , once i got around to swapping it out for the 896 mk3 in my recording rack, i figured it mi...

Well, this one's a "biggie" - i had been lusting after one of these for a few years now, but the price was (and technically st...

Even though this is the 4th or 5th of these units that has gone through my hands, looks like i never documented a teardown of one - shame on...

Long time no see, eh? Well, what can you do when the new job's kicking you in the rear end? Regardless, new patient on the table this ti...

I was considering making the previous post about the repair as well, but once the teardown part of it was done, i decided it had gotten lon...

[[[ Repair can be found here ]]] This came up on eBay the other week as faulty - inputs 1/2 and outputs 1/2 seemingly dead. First instinc...

I had fiddled with one of these a couple years back, but here's another chance to take a look inside a (1st gen) Focusrite Scarlett 2i2,...

As it turns out, i hadn't done (or at least documented) a teardown of this little guy, even though i've been using it for the last t...

[Part one can be found right over here ] Through a mix of patience, persistence and good luck, i managed to get my grubby mits on another,...

A local friend bought this slightly battle-scarred Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 off a buddy of his. The reported issue was some random / interm...

Ebay strikes again - this time, a pretty damn cheap (to acquire) M-Audio Profire 2626 Firewire audio interface. I maintain it's still th...

Yet another "sold as faulty" eBay catch - a nice little(?) Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 USB audio interface . Which turned out to actua...

Together with the pair of Konnekt x32's (one of which is dealt with in the previous write-up here ), i also got one of these Presonus Au...